Big Sole Blog (BSB)

I don't know what to say. Police report that two people have died and others have had limbs blown off. CNN.

As I said on Twitter yesterday, "I was in New Jersey when [the] towers came down. I've written about it before. I don't know if I want to again just b/c of [this] 10 year anniversary." I grappled with whether or not to write anything about September 11 a decade later because it took me until 2004, a whole three years after September 11, 2001, to write anything at all about what I felt on that

The bombing and shootings in Norway made me remember an experience I had in 2003 when I worked at an airport kiosk and encountered a Norwegian man taking pictures of workers loading a passenger plane. I wrote about the incident at my old blog, Confessions of a Jersey Goddess, in 2007. Here's my recollection as written then:... I worked for a while at Newark International Airport and noticed a

Updated Wednesday: President Obama says White House will not release Osama bin Laden death photos: "We don't trot out this stuff as trophies"The White House should not make the photos of bin Laden's body available for broadcast. For Americans who want to see the body photos, the government should put the pics in a case at the Pentagon. The morbidly curious can contact the military if they want

I did not think this day would come, but about two hours ago, my son rushed into the living room and said, "Mom, Osama bin Laden is dead!" "What? Was it natural causes?""No," he said. "He was killed." (Later sources reported that bin Laden was shot in the head, shot through the left eye.)I stopped watching Treme on HBO and turned to CNN where I saw that about 30 or 40 people had already gathered